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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
On Cooking Mountain Oysters
Author/Creator
Narrator: Stewart, Leslie J.
Fleischhauer, Carl
Wilson, William A., interviewers.
Created/Published
May 09,1981
Notes
Les Stewart talks about cooking calf testicles, or "calf fries," as a delicacy and then relates a joke on the topic.
In Paradise Valley, the most frequently heard term for cooked calf testicles is calf fries. Les opened his remarks by using the terms "mountain oysters" and "Rocky Mountain oysters," words that have had wide currency in print, but uses "fries" in his closing joke. The joke, of course, turns on the use of the word fries.
In the branding corral, the testicles are stored in a bucket of water. Once home, they may be cooked at once or frozen.
Subject
Activities
Foodways
Testicles
Jokes
Ethnography
Motion Pictures
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
3/4 inch video
Language
English
Call Number
NV9-VT4
Digital ID
afc96ran v041
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.v041